Your New Year To-Do List for Yourself

Here are some important things to do if you want to do a little bit of inner work on yourself and welcome the New Year with a sense of peace and calmness:

-Write a letter to yourself. Have it come from your Higher Self. Go through what happened last year, what the wiser part of you would tell you.

-Write a letter to anyone whom you feel incomplete with and need closure. Don’t send it. Write it for yourself, for your healing. Say what needs to be said.

-Forgive someone who hurt you this year. Give yourself this gift. You can do this in person, over the phone, or just quietly in your own space. Include yourself in this exercise. What do you need to forgive yourself for from this past year? What mistake? What regret? What action?

-Accept your family members exactly the way they are. Have no expectations that they will be different for these holidays or any to come in this new year. Do not expect them to understand you or any choices/decisions you’ve made or are planning to make.

-Figure out the few things you do to re-energize yourself and follow through with doing this in the coming year. What is it for you? Nature? Working out? Sleeping in? Prayer and meditation? Writing? Be clear on what you need more of.

-What’s the worst thing you tell yourself? What’s the number-one excuse that gets in your way? Write it down, make friends with it. Ask yourself, “is this really really true?” Who would you be and what would you do without this excuse?

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Wow, that’s really quite amazing. I had a tough year and still have a de-energizing hangover ofrom depression. Having written the letter, I feel so much better. If you allow the problems just to be there, they seem to reduce to unimportance. And the thing that is important comes to the fore. Great post – thank you.
This stuff is so good – why doesn’t anyone else comment?

Thank you. This was so helpful, just what I needed, especially the part of allowing family members to be exactly as they are. I felt I wanted to do that but thought I should be trying to encourage my son to do more, but now feel I can allow him to make his own choices. I love this site so much I put in on my status on face book so my friends could benefit.

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